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How do you get over someone?

(no subject) J john adams to me 1 minute agoDetails I thought this may be the best place to post it. Recently, I was introduced to a guy via a coworker. The coworker knew his parents and his parents gave my number to him. Right off the bat, there were signs that the relationship may be doomed since he would not even text me, so I had to ask for his number and text him first. From the start, I asked him out on a date. We had exchanged photos and I was dissatisfied with his. He looked like someone’s dad in the most unattractive way possible—don’t get me wrong, the older the better for me; I especially like men in their fifties particularly ones in positions of power. At this point in my life, I’ve had enough dating experience to know that pictures do not always capture the true person. Some people look better, some look worse. However, he refused citing COVID and school as the reason. I have to say a little bit about my circumstances. I’m a professional in my mid twenties who has earned 80000 last year. My former date in question was in his late twenties but in school. Okay, legit reasons. He offered to do video or voice, but then later retracted the video offer. I was very reluctant to continue to interact with him given his hesitancy but my cousins who knew about this urged me to continue to communicate with him. So we talked via phone a number of times and texted often for a few weeks. Finally, he agreed to go out on a date. I was very excited and had at this point formed an emotional attachment to him. He was smart, articulate and had a nice voice. His ability to speak was clearly above average and marked. I was very excited to meet him, and wore my best. I even bought new clothes the day before. The date went well. He looked EXACTLY like his photo which was disappointing at first, but as the date wore on, he won me over with his vocal skills. I liked the way his teeth looked when he spoke! Though I did found him to be constantly sighing not concerning to me at the time. I enjoyed myself, and on my way home—I had come from a completely different city to visit him—I texted him about how the date went well, how I had enjoyed it. He did not respond to my remarks on that, but instead focused on me getting home. I tried one last time to get him to comment on how the date went but he didn’t and then it sank in. He didn’t like me, or was dissatisfied with me in some way. I didn’t pass with him. It is my suspicion that most likely he didn’t think I was good-looking enough. I’ve been told again and again by my coworkers that I am a good-looking guy, and many people online remark on my photogenicity. I suspect that my coworkers think I’m handsome because they like me and that I look better in photos than in real life. I was overcome with sadness and thought about all the times we had talked. I sent him one last gif of the Winchesters hugging (he had stopped responding at this point). The next day which has to be something like 12 hours after my last text, he texted that he had fallen asleep—because he wanted to be back. Like the audacity of this guy, how could you possibly sleep for 12 hours? I was like, fuck this arrogant prick and I stopped texting him, erased every trace of him on my social media and also deleted his phone number. I would never go back, because how could you possibly live like this? I resent the time I spent communicating with him, because now a bond has been formed because of the length of time we interacted and I find myself still thinking about him and wondering if he is thinking about me.

by Anonymousreply 17February 25, 2021 2:36 AM

Dear OP, did the events in this overly long paragraph occur over a few days or a few months?

by Anonymousreply 1February 25, 2021 1:29 AM

R1 a few weeks.

by Anonymousreply 2February 25, 2021 1:30 AM

Shit. That’s a long post.

by Anonymousreply 3February 25, 2021 1:30 AM

Time heals. I've had trouble getting over people, eventually I realized it wasn't the person I missed but the period of time that they represented. When I was either happier or more care free or less stressed. Just do what you have to do to feel better in the moment, might be watching a movie, meeting with friends or stuffing your face with junk food.

by Anonymousreply 4February 25, 2021 1:40 AM

I'm sorry. OP.

A story without paragraph spacing is too difficult to read.

by Anonymousreply 5February 25, 2021 1:40 AM

Yeah OP, no one is going to read that.

by Anonymousreply 6February 25, 2021 1:41 AM

Would it be better for you all if I uploaded another thread this time with paragraph spacing?

by Anonymousreply 7February 25, 2021 1:44 AM

How do you make so much money and you can't write decently?

by Anonymousreply 8February 25, 2021 1:56 AM

you're exhausting OP. work on that.

by Anonymousreply 9February 25, 2021 1:57 AM

R8, I was rushing

by Anonymousreply 10February 25, 2021 1:57 AM

Cut to the chase, Mary!

tl/dr

by Anonymousreply 11February 25, 2021 1:59 AM

Line breaks are your friends, OP. That was a long, whiney, self-indulgent wall of text. It doesn't seem like he was that in to you. You dated for a couple of weeks, its not like you were together for a long time. You are the one who got all huffy, cut him off, deleted his number, etc...

You decided he didn't respond to you enough, and you cut him off. How do you get over it? Like that. He didn't dump you, you dumped him. You aren't the one who gets sympathy.

by Anonymousreply 12February 25, 2021 2:07 AM

There’s some self-raising required to “get over” someone to where you appreciate what you had, no longer hate them, and become indifferent.

Then, there’s the usual path; find a rebound boyfriend, punish him for all the sins you believe your ex committed, and feel that the score has been settled.

Neither of these is compatible with the “I’m a broken, (yet strong) black woman bullshit you’re currently wallowing in because they don’t provide enough melodramatic sweeps of the hair, heavy sighs, and a bit knuckle while staring out into space.

by Anonymousreply 13February 25, 2021 2:11 AM

SUICIDE.

by Anonymousreply 14February 25, 2021 2:14 AM

Get into yourself, OP.

by Anonymousreply 15February 25, 2021 2:16 AM

Have you ever been diagnosed with Aspergers, OP?

by Anonymousreply 16February 25, 2021 2:34 AM

why do you have 2 separate threads about this?

by Anonymousreply 17February 25, 2021 2:36 AM
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